Measurement of Attitudes toward Obese People among a Canadian Sample of Men and Women

2002 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
pp. 627-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine V. Glenn ◽  
Peter Chow
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Reliability Analysis ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
The Body ◽  
Obese Women ◽  
Obese People ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Diet And Exercise

A new scale for examining attitudes toward obese people had 44 items selected from previously published scales designed to indicate attitudes toward obese people. Reliability analysis yielded a Cronbach coefficient alpha of .92 for the total sample. A factor analysis yielded four factors. Employing the Body Mass Index as an indicator of obesity, the attitudes of 239 men and women were examined. Women were significantly more positive than men in their attitude toward obese people. When examining Body Mass Index as a factor, comparisons of obese and nonobese women indicated obese women were more positive on the Diet and Exercise factor of the scale. Suggestions for improvement and research are offered.

Sensitivity and Specificity of the Body Mass Index to Determine Obesity: A Study with Brazilian Men and Women

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-75
Author(s):  
Paulo Roberto dos Santos Amorim ◽  
Sidney Cavalcante da Silva ◽  
Estélio Henrique Martin Dantas ◽  
José Fernandes Filho
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Sensitivity And Specificity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Men And Women

scholarly journals GAMBARAN INDEKS MASSA TUBUH (IMT) JAMAAH MESJID AL- FATAH MALALAYANG

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Trigisa Lasabuda ◽  
Pemsi M. Wowor ◽  
Yanti Mewo
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Insulin Resistance Syndrome ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Normal Weight ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Weight Percentage ◽  
The Metabolic Syndrome

Abstract: Obesity is one manifestation of nutritional problems, which need attention. Obesity is a state of excess body fat in absolute terms and relative. In 2000, the Directorate of Community Nutrition Ministry of Health recorded a total population of Indonesia are categorized as obese estimated 76.7 million (17.5%). Many factors play a role in the occurrence of obesity are largely an interaction between genetic factors and environmental factors, such as physical activity, social, economic, and nutrition. The obesity increases the risk of cardiovascular disease because its related with the metabolic syndrome or insulin resistance syndrome or / hyperinsulinemia, glucose intolerance / diabetes mellitus (DM), dyslipidemia, hypertension and other. This study uses a quantitative research design and cross-sectional approach which takes place from July to August, 2015. The total sample of 20 people were taken to the al-Fatah mosque Malalayang aged 9-21 years. The results of the research showed that respondent with weight less amounted to 8 respondent, respondents with normal weight is 10 respondents and it was the highest, respondent with pre-obesity is only one respondent, while respondent with obesity II also only 1 respondents. Conclusion: The results of this study concluded that the image of the body mass index (BMI) mosque al - Fatah Malalayang respondents with less weight have percentage of 40%, respondents with normal weight have a percentage of 45%, respondents with more weight percentage of 15%, the respondents with pre-obese weight have percentage of 5%, and the respondent with weight obesity II have a percentage of 10%.Keywords: obesity, body mass index (BMI), diabetes mellitus (DM).Abstrak: Obesitas merupakan salah satu manifestasi dari masalah gizi lebih, yang perlu mendapatkan perhatian. Pada tahun 2000, Direktorat Bina Gizi Masyarakat Departemen Kesehatan RI mencatat jumlah penduduk Indonesia yang masuk kategori obesitas diperkirakan 76.7 juta (17.5%) . Banyak faktor yang berperan dalam terjadinya obesitas yang sebagian besar merupakan interaksi antara faktor genetik dengan faktor lingkungan, antara lain aktivitas fisik, sosial ekonomi, dan nutrisi. Keadaan obesitas meningkatkan risiko penyakit-penyakit kardiovaskular karena keterkaitanya dengan sindrom metabolik atau atau sindrom resistensi insulin/hiperinsulinemia, intoleransi glukosa/Diabetes Melitus (DM), dyslipidemia, hipertensi dan lainnya. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain penelitian kuantitatif dan pendekatan cross sectional yang berlangsung dari Juli – Agustus 2015. total sampel berjumlah 20 orang yang diambil pada jamaah Masjid Al- Fatah Malalayang yang berusia 19 – 21 tahun. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian didapatkan bahwa responden yang memiki berat badan kurang berjumlah 8 responden, responden dengan berat badan normal 9 responden dan merupakan yang terbanyak, responden dengan pra obesitas 1 responden, sedangkan responden dengan badan obesitas II 2 responden. Simpulan: Dari hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa gambaran Indeks Massa tubuh (IMT) masjid al – fatah malalayang responden dengan berat badan kurang memiliki persentase sebesar 40%, responden dengan berat badan normal memiliki persentase sebesar 45%, responden dengan berat badan lebih memiliki persentase sebesar 15%, responden dengan berat badan pra obesitas memiliki persentase sebesar 5%, Responden dengan berat badan obesitas II memiliki persentase sebesar 10%.Kata kunci: obesitas, indeks massa tubuh (IMT), diabetes mellitus (DM).

Higher Ca and Na content in the hair of obese people in Poland

2019 ◽  
Vol 89 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 176-184
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Kwiecień ◽  
Wioletta Samolińska ◽  
Sławomir Puczkowski ◽  
Magdalena Waśko ◽  
T. Blicharski
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Optical Emission ◽  
The Body ◽  
Emission Spectrometry ◽  
Obese People ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
Hair Samples ◽  
Positive Correlations

Abstract. The authors of this paper decided to check whether the content of selected minerals in human hair is projected into the nutritional status of the body expressed as the BMI. The study focused on evaluating the content of calcium, sodium, potassium and magnesium in the hair of 7845 individuals in relation to their BMI. 5126 women and 2719 men aged from 18 to 92, domiciled throughout Poland, were involved in the study. Hair samples were taken from several points of the occipital scalp. Ca, Na, K and Mg in the hair were determined using inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES). The content of Ca and Na in the hair of obese people (>30.0 kg·m2) was higher (323 mg·kg−1 and 180 mg·kg−1) in comparison with the groups of people with normal body weight and those grade 2 underweight (<16.9 kg·m2): 191 mg·kg−1 and 103 mg·kg−1 respectively. The highest level of K (317 mg·kg−1) was found in the hair of people classed as grade 2 underweight. The body mass index caused no differentiation in the content of Mg in hair. Positive correlations were found between Ca-Na, Ca-Mg and Na-Mg and between the BMI of the subjects and the content of Ca in hair (R = 0.163; p < 0.01) and between the BMI and the content of Na (R = 0.191; p < 0.01). On the other hand, a negative relation between K and the BMI was correlated only to an infinitesimal degree (R = −0.030, p < 0.01). The results point to a relationship between the body mass index and the content of Ca, Na and K in the hair of adults.

scholarly journals Association between the body mass index and chronic kidney disease in men and women. A population-based study from Israel

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (suppl 4) ◽  
pp. iv130-iv135 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Cohen ◽  
A. Fraser ◽  
E. Goldberg ◽  
G. Milo ◽  
M. Garty ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Chronic Kidney Disease ◽  
Kidney Disease ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Population Based ◽  
The Body ◽  
Population Based Study ◽  
Men And Women

On the Possibilities of Using the Body Mass Index Index to Reveal Trends in Changing the Health Status of Student Youth

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu.V. Shvechikhina ◽  
K.S. Ishchenko ◽  
L.M. Kavelenova
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Normal Weight ◽  
The Body ◽  
Obese People ◽  
Biology Students ◽  
Oscillatory Character ◽  
Index Index

The article is devoted to the study of body mass index (BMI) indicators of biology students at Samara University in 20008-2020. For girls, against the background of fluctuations over the years, from 2015-2016 to 2020. there is a consistent decrease in the proportion of people with underweight, an increase in the proportion of people with normal weight. For young men, changes in the BMI structure are of a more pronounced oscillatory character. The negative features of the 2019 and 2020 contingent are the emergence of overweight and obese people. Key words: students, physical health, body weight, Samara region, body mass index.

Relationship of the body mass index with skinfolds, girths, and bone breadths in canadian men and women aged 20–70 years

1988 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. D. Ross ◽  
S. M. Crawford ◽  
D. A. Kerr ◽  
R. Ward ◽  
D. A. Bailey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
The Body ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Relationship Of

The association of body mass index with endometriosis and disease severity in women with pain

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah J Holdsworth-Carson ◽  
Uri P Dior ◽  
Eliza M Colgrave ◽  
Martin Healey ◽  
Grant W Montgomery ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Retrospective Study ◽  
Disease Severity ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Inverse Relationship ◽  
Population Based ◽  
The Body ◽  
World Health ◽  
Obese Women ◽  
American Fertility Society

Introduction: There is a well-established inverse relationship between body mass index and frequency of endometriosis. However, these population-based studies have relied mostly on self-reported cases of endometriosis, rather than surgically confirmed endometriosis where disease severity has been objectively assessed. The aim of the current retrospective study was to establish whether the established relationship between endometriosis and low body mass index was independent of disease severity. Methods: Women with menstrual and/or pelvic pain undergoing laparoscopy for suspected endometriosis were recruited for this retrospective study (n = 509). Women were grouped by body mass index (kg/m2) according to World Health Organization criteria: underweight (<18.5), normal (18.5–24.99), pre-obese (25–29.99) or obese (≥30). Endometriosis was scored according to the revised American Fertility Society system. Data were analysed based on body mass index and endometriosis status to identify any relationship between body mass index and disease. Results: The average body mass index of women with endometriosis was 25.0 kg/m2. The body mass index distribution of women with endometriosis differed relative to women in the general population. As expected, fewer obese women had endometriosis than in the lower body mass index categories. However, the obese women who did have endometriosis had significantly higher revised American Fertility Society scores compared to women with normal and pre-obese body mass indices. Discussion: Our results are consistent with the established finding of an inverse relationship between body mass index and endometriosis. The novel finding from this study is that obesity is associated with increased disease severity and reduced frequency of stage I endometriosis. It remains unclear what role body mass index has in the cause or effect of endometriosis; we speculate that body mass index may be useful for sub-classifying the disease.

scholarly journals Dose Body Mass Index (BMI) Fit to Muscular Individual?

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-16
Author(s):  
Nasim Habibzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Type ◽  
Obese People ◽  
Normal Body

Body mass index (BMI) seemingly is an important scale for the body types determination in individual with different ethnicity. Accordingly, individual with BMI< 18.5 are classified as slim or underweight and people with BMI between 18.5 -24.9 are called normal body types. Subsequently, those individual with BMI between 25-29.9 are categorized as overweight and people with BMI > 30 are classified as obese people. Nonetheless, important question is where the muscular individual are located in this BMI scale ? Macular induvial also called overweight or obese in BMI scale which can create kind of confusion for induvial because the might try to lose weight whilst they do not actually need it. Thus ,it seems BMI measure is not sensible measure for muscular induvial as otherwise the can be at risk of health problems in various ways. Uses of the another apparatus such an ordinary weight scale or computational devices which could estimate the body type according to the BMI more accurately can be helpful.

High body mass index and altered androgen hormones are the disruptors of fertility among women undergoing ART

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haroon Latif Khan ◽  
Shahzad bhatti ◽  
Humaira Hamayun ◽  
Sana Abbas ◽  
Samina Shuail ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
High Body Mass Index ◽  
Live Birth Rate ◽  
Normal Weight ◽  
Unprotected Sex ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ethical Review ◽  
P Value ◽  
Obese Women

Abstract Background: The body mass index (BMI) affects reproduction and pregnancy outcomes. Infertility is defined as the inability to conceive despite having frequent, unprotected sex for at least one year. The inability to have children affects men and women across the globe.Methods: It was a retrospective study on couples coming for treatment of subfertility in Lahore Institute of Fertility and Endocrinology (LIFE). The institutional ethical review committee approved. Patients are divided into three groups, normal weight (BMI ≤25kg/m²), overweight (26-30 kg/m²), and obese (>30 kg/m²). Data were collected from July 2017 to May 2018. The number of infertile women who underwent assisted fertilization at LIFE was 222.Results: Two hundred and twenty-two sub-fertile patients were selected. Their ages were between 25-36 years. The mean age was 31 ± 3.91 years. There was a significant relationship between the number of follicles and BMI (p-value=0.03). Outcome parameters are significantly correlated with all groups of BMI. Embryo transfer is insignificantly correlated with BMI. (p-value = 0.07)Conclusion: According to this study, obesity is associated with poor embryos in obese women with more than 30 BMI. Furthermore, women who were obese might need a higher dose of FSH, and the live birth rate is higher in women with normal BMI.

Obesity and its Impact on Health

2021 ◽  
pp. 485-487
Author(s):  
Veerabhadrappa G Mendagudli ◽  
Shivaleela S Sarawad
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
The United States ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Obese Children ◽  
Obese People ◽  
The World

Obesity has almost tripled globally since 1975. More than 1.9 billion people aged 18 and up were overweight in 2016. Over 650 million of them were obese. In 2016, 39% of adults aged 18 and up were overweight, with 13% being obese. Overweight and obesity kill more people than underweight in the majority of the world's population. In the year 2019, 38 million children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese. In 2016, over 340 million children and adolescents aged 5 to 19 years old were overweight or obese. Obesity can be avoided. Currently, India has over 135 million obese people. Until recently, the body mass index (BMI) was used to measure obesity. By 2020, there will be 158 million obese children around the world, rising to 206 million by 2025 and 254 million by 2030. In reality, India will have the most obese children after China, with 27,481,141 or 27 million, well ahead of the United States' 17 million.

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